Abdullah Abdullah

Abdullah Abdullah (born 5 September 1960) was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2005.

Biography
Abdullah Abdullah was born in Karte Parwan in Kabul, Afghanistan on 5 September 1960. Of Tajik heritage, he fought for the Northern Alliance alongside Ahmad Shah Massoud against the racist Taliban during the Afghan Civil War of 1992-2001. After Massoud's assassination in 2001, he stood loyal to the Northern Alliance and became a politician of the new Afghanistan, becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2001. He assisted in the transformation of Afghanistan into a first-world country, and Abdullah ran for president in 2014. He was beaten by Ashraf Ghani, but he refused to accept defeat and attempted to regain his chances of becoming president in a second vote. On 21 September 2014, Ghani and Abdullah agreed to a power-sharing deal in which Ghani would become President and Abdullah would become Prime Minister, and although Abdullah initially agreed, he later disagreed and stood defiant against the new government. His supporters said that they wanted a new deal, so the rivalry between the two continued.